Traditionally, python provides /usr/bin/python <- currently installed version, usually a symlink to /usr/bin/python<major>, where <major> is the major number of the release. Often there exists as well a python<major>.<minor> when multiple versions of python are installed. Thus, if one had python1.5.2, python2.0, and python2.2 installed (with python2.2 the default): /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python2 -> /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python1.5 /usr/bin/python2.0 Would all exist.
May I suggest the following addition as well? (Which results in: /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python2 -> /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python2.2 --- python-2.2-r5.ebuild Mon Apr 8 07:36:57 2002 +++ python-2.2-r6.ebuild Tue Apr 9 18:29:55 2002 @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ # Maintainer: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/python-2.2-r5.ebuild,v 1.4 2002/04/08 12:36:57 jhhudso Exp $ -PYVER="`echo ${PV} | cut -d '.' -f 1,2`" +PYVER_MAJOR="`echo ${PV} | cut -d '.' -f 1`" +PYVER_MINOR="`echo ${PV} | cut -d '.' -f 2`" S=${WORKDIR}/Python-${PV} FCHKSUM="python-fchksum-1.6" FCHKSUMP="python-fchksum_1.6-2" @@ -123,8 +124,9 @@ src_install() { dodir /usr make install prefix=${D}/usr || die - rm "${D}/usr/bin/python" - dosym python${PYVER} /usr/bin/python + rm "${D}/usr/bin/python" + dosym python${PYVER_MAJOR} /usr/bin/python + dosym python${PYVER_MAJOR}.${PYVER_MINOR} /usr/bin/python${PYVER_MAJOR} dodoc README # install our own custom python-config
